REMEMBER "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that's the way to bet." Damon Runyon
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TIMELY OPPORTUNITIES TO DO GOOD And speaking of Paul Harvey, I think it was his radio program that I heard this reportedly true story. A young man was busy at his job of taking out…
PRACTICAL TO THE END In Winston Churchill's early years he often found assignments to travel as a soldier on special assignment and doubled as a journalist to various war- spots around the world. After having…
A HELPLFUL NEWSLETTER I recently subscribed to a periodical called The Bible Newsletter published by the Evangelical Ministries, Inc. in Philadelphia. That's the same crowd that publishes Eternity magazine. It is an eight-page monthly newsletter…
FAITH If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud It is but for a time. I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom; I…
FAITH For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between Irwin Troll and Gaylord Buzzard in the Broom Hilda comic strip. Gaylord is reading the daily paper and observes, "First…
THE PRIVILEGE OF SUFFERING Joni Eareckson's story is now well known to us both through her books and the movie about her paralysis as a teenager and her amazing fight back to a useful and…
MINORITY GROUP/ETHNIC HUMOR I have mixed feelings about finally getting admitted to a persecuted minority group. In the recent presidential campaign political pundit Mark Russell reported that Mrs. Mondale said Walter had Norwegian Charisma. Russell…
A LETTER TO GOD FROM A CHURCH SECRETARY Dear God: It's me again, Lord. I really try to be patient with the congregation, but . . . that's my problem right there, Lord . .…
COMMUNICATION WITH KIDS One day while living in Louisville, KY and serving as a student pastor of a small church in the county, our daughter, Pam, who was only three at the time, was playing…
COMMUNICATION AND CRIME Peter Drucker, often called the "father of American Management," claims that sixty percent of all management problems are a result of faulty communications. A leading marriage counselor says that at least half…
GOD'S NEEDS John Wesley once received a note which said: "The Lord has told me to tell you that He doesn't need your book-learning, your Greek and your Hebrew." Wesley answered, "Thank you sir. Your…
VALS According to William Meyers in The Image Makers, Madison Avenue's most widely used categorization of people in our society is that suggested by SRI International's VALS (Values and Life-Styles). This divides people into five…
RETIREMENT PLANS A newly hired consultant breezed into the personnel manager's office and interrupted his conversation with another employee to ask how many of the company's employees were approaching retirement age. The personnel manager said,…
BABBLE JARGON The following notice was sent home with some high school students: "Our school's cross- graded, multi-ethnic, individualized learning program is designed to enhance the concept of an open-ended learning program on the continuum…
MAGIC FOR SUFFERING Fred Coulter, Jr. Assistant Pastor of The Congregational Church of Green Farms in Westport, Connecticut sent in the following story from Harold Kushner's book When Bad Things Happen To Good People. There…
ROMANCE No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese
SO RARE As a child, I could always depend on my father to put life's disasters into perspective, whether it was a broken leg or a broken heart. Years later I was devastated by a…
AWARENESS I don't know where I found this poem, or when it was written, but I've always liked it very much. God--let me be aware Let me not stumble blindly down the ways Just getting…
ZEALOUS EVANGELIZING I heard one at Rotary today (probably apocryphal) about Clare Booth Luce and her zeal for Catholicism. It seems she was visiting Rome and had obtained a private audience with the Pope. After…
